Emerging role for αB-crystallin as a therapeutic agent: Pros and Cons

Current Molecular Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-61

  Reddy, V S ^a   Reddy, G B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

Author keywords

Chaperone; Disease; Peptide; Stress; Therapeutic activity; B crystallin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; CHAPERONE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ALEXANDER DISEASE; ANTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; APOPTOSIS; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CRUSH; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PARKINSON DISEASE; REPERFUSION INJURY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THROMBOSIS; UPREGULATION; CATARACT; GENE THERAPY; GENETICS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

VERTEBRATA;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; APOPTOSIS; CATARACT; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 84922335131     PISSN: 15665240     EISSN: 18755666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1566524015666150114112853     Document Type: Article

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